A 13-year-old girl mauled by a lioness two weeks ago in Kajiado will be buried by her mother, the court has ruled.
A Nairobi court rejected a bid by her biological father to lay her to rest.
Kenneth Kipkemei Kigen had filed a petition at the Milimani Commercial court in Nairobi, seeking a node to bury her daughter at their rural home in Nandi County.
However, Elizabeth Mawia, mother to the deceased, had maintained that her daughter should be buried at their rural home in Kakeyani village Kitui South sub-county, arguing that she had brought up all her three children single-handedly. ''I therefore allow Elizabeth Mawia the mother to the child to bury her daughter Peace Mwende at her father's property in Kitui.
